Using Solar Energy for Cooking Fuel in Kenya

Welcome to Kombewa!! Kombewa is about 400km from Nairobi, in Nyanza Province and 47 km from Kisumu City. It is famous for Kit Mikayi directly translated as the Stone for the First Wife. The area has many huge rocks, some as high as 5 meters, arranged in a supernatural way. In addition to the rocks the region enjoys plenty of sun shine which AfriAfya and the community members perceived the potential of harnessing solar power as cooking fuel. The AfriAfya team took a drive there and held a workshop for two days on this. The exercise was very successful and the community members who attended this workshop informed relatives and friends who reside in other regions about the workshop. They have since been training them on how to harness solar power for cooking using the solar cook kits donated by the AfriAfya team. This outreach was made possible by people on the Global Giving Family who actively advocate for saving the environment. We are grateful for the support and pray that it continues, in a mighty way.

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• Solar Cooking at Diemo Primary School-2011

The people in Nyanza Province, Barkorwa to be precise heard of solar cooking trainings and were curious as to how the sun can cook!  In Barkorwa, the common cooking fuel are charcoal and firewood. 

However the weather has been quite unpredictable here in Kenya and due to the rain we are unable to conduct a solar cooking training.  We are grateful for the rain as there will be more food and at fair price.

With the help of the Global Giving Family we complied a pamphlet on the trainings we have conducted previously and have shared it with organizations and people from different provinces in Kenya.  This is in a bid to encourage reafforestation by teaching on alternative sources of fuel.

AfriAfya thanks you for the continued support and we humbly request that you talk to us about this project.

• Pamphlet on Solar Cooking (PDF)
• Pamphlet on Solar Cooking (PDF)